Sentence examples for materials acquisition from inspiring English sources

The final component for corporate sustainability, in Hee's view, is what the company is doing to minimize negative impacts over its product's entire life cycle, including raw materials acquisition, materials manufacturing, product manufacturing and packaging, transportation, retail, consumer use and waste.

This business decomposes into four elements: materials acquisition, design, fabrication and retail.

In contrast, integrated solar energy is that which has zero land-use and land-cover change impacts beyond those associated with raw materials acquisition and manufacturing.

The tool relies on flexible interfaces, genetic environmental data, and a focus on the reduction of mass and energy (materials acquisition, manufacture, and use lifecycle stages).

Baseline constructed wetland designs are compared to different treatment performance scenarios and to conventional wastewater treatment at the materials acquisition, assembly and operation life stages.

LCA considers the environmental impacts along the continuum of a product's life (that is, from cradle to grave) from raw materials acquisition to production, use, and disposal or recovery.

Attitudes to material acquisition have varied greatly down the ages.

For the Frankfurt School, the pursuit of happiness through shopping and material acquisition is obscene.

(Though the thrill of a new material acquisition generally fades faster).

"People are tired, overwhelmed financially and striving toward material acquisition rather than taking on the hard challenge of parenting," he said.

Often, though, the nation's economic growth seems to have spurred primarily a scramble for material acquisition that has little to do with democracy or other such ideals.